Games You'll Love

Curated recommendations based on Jon Shafer's At the Gates

Predestination
79% match

Predestination

Indie

Predestination is a turn-based sci-fi 4X game set in the distant past of our own galaxy. Ships from countless races are flung back in time by a powerful hostile race known as the Revenants, and must now work to rebuild their empires and somehow stop the Revenants in the past.

Legions At War
76% match

Legions At War

Indie

Unique sandbox platform for the enjoyment of turn based tactics/strategy games. You control modern military and classical chess units, so be prepared for incredibly challenging turn based challenges in the campaign or massive online tournaments against the best strategic minds in the world.

Axes and Acres
75% match

Axes and Acres

Indie

Axes and Acres is a deep and engaging single-player strategy game designed to create exciting decisions every turn. The rules are easy to learn, but every turn can be played out in many different ways in order to farm, build and survive.

Third Front: WWII
75% match

Third Front: WWII

Indie

Are you ready to rewrite history and take on the role of ruler of the nation? Show your knowledge of tactics and strategy, become the commander-in-chief of a huge army! Lead the troops of one of the three nations - the USSR, Germany and the Allies - and pave your way for each of them!

Civilization IV®: Warlords
73% match

Civilization IV®: Warlords

Singleplayer

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for the award-winning game that has become an instant world-wide hit. Paying homage to some of history's greatest military leaders, the expansion delivers six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their...

The Far Frontier
73% match

The Far Frontier

Indie

The Far Frontier is a combination of two popular game genres: match 3 and strategy. While playing, two players fight using a shared match 3 area. They must use tactics and strategy to win.

Galactic Dominion
73% match

Galactic Dominion

Indie

Galactic Dominion is a fast paced 4x space strategy game. Explore the stars, perform research, manage your colonies, build a fleet, defend your systems, and conquer the galaxy. Play through an epic story driven campaign or alternatively customize your games for countless re-playability!

Sentinel 4: Dark Star
73% match

Sentinel 4: Dark Star

Indie

Want a tactical and strategic tower defense challenge that's packed with options and upgrades? Take command of the dropship Sentinel and do battle across a vibrant sci-fi world.

Great Powers
72% match

Great Powers

Indie

A 4x global turn-based strategy game with a well-developed economic and military model.

Ancient Tower
72% match

Ancient Tower

Indie

The monsters are coming to invade our kingdom. Can you help our guild to stop them? Play it BEAUTIFULLY: the ultimate tower defense game has finally arrived. An epic guild of epic Heroes, dozens of angry monsters, amazing powers, golems, a lot of different and unique colorful levels is what is waiting for you in Ancient Tower.

Star Traders: 4X Empires
71% match

Star Traders: 4X Empires

Indie

Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.

Ancestory
71% match

Ancestory

Indie

Turn-based strategy meets card game! Outwit your opponent on multiple different battlefields with cunning strategies. Build your own decks made of underworldly minions and powerful spells!

ATRIUM
71% match

ATRIUM

Indie

Create the biggest empire by owning roads and castles without forgetting to attack other players. This builder placement game allow you to evolve your builders to a powerfull army and can be played up to 4 players on the same computer.

The Ancients
70% match

The Ancients

Indie

The Ancients is a turn-based survival strategy game where you lead a prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribe through the last ice age. Survive the elements, hunt fierce animals, migrate to new continents, advance your technology, make social and political tribe decisions, and evolve your civilization.

Fantasy Wars
70% match

Fantasy Wars

Singleplayer

Fantasy Wars is a turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. Combining both classic strategy gameplay and sophisticated 3D graphics players can experience epic battles like never before. Taking place in a fantasy world of Human kingdoms, Orc clans, Dwarfs' citadels and Elven forests the player is thrust into a world of war and...

Rogue Hex
70% match

Rogue Hex

Singleplayer

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars! ✨

Horizon
70% match

Horizon

Indie

Horizon is a turn-based space strategy game of galactic exploration and conquest in which you are in control of humanity’s destiny. You will explore deep space, find new frontiers and discover alien artifacts hidden on long-abandoned planets.

For The Warp
70% match

For The Warp

Indie

A roguelike deckbuilding game in space! Explore randomly generated systems, enemies and strange encounters. Build your deck, survive and reach For The Warp gate!

Dead Season
69% match

Dead Season

Indie

Guide a group of unprepared strangers in their struggle to survive a zombie apocalypse, in Dead Season, a turn-based tactics game. Strategize to endure against relentless undead hordes, but beware, noise attracts more danger. Can you escape the outbreak's grip?

Dawn of Andromeda
68% match

Dawn of Andromeda

Indie

Dawn of Andromeda is a pausable, real-time 4X space strategy game providing an accessible, fun and immersive experience, introducing fresh ideas to the genre. Build your empire, colonize new planets, interact with other factions and characters, research technologies and build great fleets.

Epoch of Guardians
68% match

Epoch of Guardians

Indie

In history, many brilliant civilizations faced annihilation due to the invasion of powerful empires, leaving only sighs of regret. In a fictional world, you will take on the role Guardian of Civilization. Can you help these civilizations grow and thrive, resisting the invasion of formidable enemies?

Fortify
68% match

Fortify

Indie

Fortify is a real-time strategy game with a tower defense twist. Defend your castle from attacking monsters and siege weapons by using ranged and melee defenders, catapults, cannons, oil fields and more. You start at the iron age, advancing to the medieval age, and later, the imperial age.

Defense Warfare
67% match

Defense Warfare

Indie

Defense Warfare is a large-scale hero defense, with stunning graphics, unique level environments, and different game mods. Customize your Gunship’s abilities and appearance, choose the tower or trap that fits best, upgrade it in your own direction and leave nothing but a wasteland behind you.

Stars in Shadow
67% match

Stars in Shadow

Indie

Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

Age of Conquest IV
67% match

Age of Conquest IV

Indie

Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.

Etherium
66% match

Etherium

Action

Etherium is a real-time strategy game set in a science-fiction universe, where three factions battle it out for a mysterious and rare resource known as ‘Etherium’.

A New World: Kingdoms
66% match

A New World: Kingdoms

Casual

A New World: Kingdoms is a turn-based strategic 4X game. Carefully expand your kingdom by constructing buildings and managing your resources. Building your own empire is not easy; there will be challenges along the way, from mountains to navigate to your rival and his warriors.

Golem Gates
66% match

Golem Gates

Indie

Golem Gates blends elements of real-time strategy (RTS) and card battle. Collect cards (called Glyphs) containing your forces and powers. Strategically weave them into a deck to prepare for battle, then unleash them in streamlined, fast-paced battles.

Castles & Catapults
66% match

Castles & Catapults

Retro

Re-live this classic medieval strategy game which combines the turn-based planning of a board game with the action and excitement of a real-time strategy game.

Aggressors: Ancient Rome
65% match

Aggressors: Ancient Rome

Difficult

A mix of deep gameplay and rich historical flavor, Aggressors: Ancient Rome lets you relive history as the ruler of one of the mighty civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Choose one of twenty available factions and conquer the world.

Wizard Warfare
65% match

Wizard Warfare

Indie

Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.

DARK FACETS
65% match

DARK FACETS

Indie

Dark facets is a 2d strategy action game in the tower defense genre with the unusual mechanics and a unique storyline. In the role of a dark magician, you will have to build your own citadel, mine resources and engage in battle with a dangerous enemy.

WARSHIFT
65% match

WARSHIFT

Indie

Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

Advisors at the End of the Universe
65% match

Advisors at the End of the Universe

Indie

AEU is a fast paced realtime strategy and 4x hybrid. Players influence their empire to grow, fight, forge alliances or engage in trade. Players are given control over the empire's traits, research and a set of three types of abilities(Construction, Plagues and Agents) to accomplish their goals.

Chess Gambit
64% match

Chess Gambit

Indie

Play chess like never before in a captivating medieval world. Lead animated armies and take on challenging rivals in private online matches. Test your skills with advanced AI or enjoy casual matches with friends offline. Conquer castles and reign supreme in an enchanting 3D chess experience!

Nightside
63% match

Nightside

Indie

A four races sci-fi base building real time strategy game set on the dark side of an unknown planet where the valuable 'green ice' resource can be found.

Lords of the Black Sun
63% match

Lords of the Black Sun

Indie

Take command of one race to join the struggle for supremacy in the galaxy. As the leader of your empire you are tasked with exploring the stars, colonizing new worlds, managing your empire and conquering whoever dares to oppose you.

Chieftain
63% match

Chieftain

Indie

Chieftain is a fantasy game of world conquest - containing elements of a procedurally generated 4X world, and real-time skirmishes including hundreds of soldiers on screen battling for your dominion and reign to be supreme!

4th Generation Warfare
63% match

4th Generation Warfare

2D

As the leader of a nation, dispatch and control your team of characters all around the world to destabilize your enemies and establish your supremacy. All methods are fair game: hacking, sabotage, political interference, military strikes, corruption, treachery, assassinations, data theft…

Wool at the Gates
63% match

Wool at the Gates

Indie

A minimalist tactical base defense game where you play as a powerful hero, command troops, and harness class synergies inspired by auto-battlers. Fortify your city’s defenses to withstand hordes of enraged sheep, plan your tactics, and lead epic battles in a thrilling cycle of strategy and combat.

StackFortress
63% match

StackFortress

Indie

A unique tower defense game. Where you design and build your defense block by block. With many component that can be combined for different effect. To survive in a hostile world.

Cyberwinter
63% match

Cyberwinter

Indie

Cyberwinter is an isometric action strategy game. On a distant planet with a harsh climate, you have to fight legions of dangerous monsters for a new home for humanity. Build bases, develop and defend them.

The path to domination
63% match

The path to domination

Indie

Your character is a person whose life begins with a clean slate. You can become a gangster, a knight, a rebel, a slave trader or someone else. You even have the strength to try to conquer the throne of the kingdom, your decisions change the world.

Refactor
62% match

Refactor

Indie

Refactor is a hard-core tower defense game that combines modular building, route planning, and element composition.

Final Frontier
61% match

Final Frontier

Retro

Quick to learn but hard to master, FINAL FRONTIER is a fast, fully icon operated, Player vs AI strategy simulation not unlike a real time chess game where the player can design his own pieces and structure his own moves. A game of infinite permutations, FINAL FRONTIER takes gameplay to the limits.

The Unexpected Quest
60% match

The Unexpected Quest

Singleplayer

Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.

PlayFortress
60% match

PlayFortress

Indie

PlayFortress is a castle building game where the player controls characters such as the Lord, Master Mason and Engineer, using them to construct elaborate castle fortifications and settlements whilst managing their economy.

Dark Chess
59% match

Dark Chess

Sports

Dark Chess is a game of chess with fog of war. Fast paced PvP battler based on classic rules. Whether you are a die-hard chess-lover or an amateur board game admirer, Dark Chess will appeal to anyone who likes the thrill of battle.

SHATTER
58% match

SHATTER

Indie

Join a wide group of characters as they travel across the world searching for answers, fighting a brutal autocracy, and chasing Esfal Psychi, a man of malevolent ambitions, in the first RPG title from uNIC Studios.

The Killer
58% match

The Killer

Indie

Oak City terrorized by a deadly predator. Navigate through dark offices, sequential rooms, and hidden passages, solving intricate puzzles to survive. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the terror and face a shocking conclusion, the fate of Oak City is in your hands.